Atlas Robotics secures $95M to commercialize tactile haptics for industrial assembly

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Atlas Robotics closed a $95 million Series C led by a consortium of industrial VC arms and automation incumbents. The company produces tactile haptic end-effectors that give collaborative robots fine-grained force sensing and feedback, enabling delicate assembly tasks such as optical component placement and micro-soldering.

Atlas' approach blends hardware calibration, real-time control, and machine-learned grasp policies to handle objects that require nuanced pressure and orientation. The company claims installations reduced scrap rates and manual rework in initial pilots at electronics and medical device manufacturers.

Capital will be used to expand manufacturing, invest in field service and integration teams, and deepen partnerships with cobot OEMs. Atlas is also developing a low-code configuration suite to let production engineers tune force profiles without deep robotics expertise.